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A96961	The wounds of an enemie in the house of a friend. Being a relation of the hard measure sustained by Miles Halhead, and Thomas Salthouse, for the testimony of Jesus: particularly in a long, and sore, and close imprisonment, first at Plymouth, and then at Exeter in the county of Devon, though they have neither offended the law of God, or of the nation. Published for the clearing of their innocency from the cloud of transgression, of which they are supposed highly guilty, and by reason of their silent abiding such sharp, and long, and cruell sufferings.	Halhead, Miles, 1613 or 14-1689 or 90.; Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3665; Thomason E870_7; ESTC R2977	52,373	80

hell the pit is made into which to cast and destroy the innocent the workers of iniquity make insurrections they whet their tongue like a sword they bend their bowes and make their Arrowes keene and ready on string and shoot at the perfect at the upright and fear not there are who incourage themselves in an evill matter that commune of laying snares privily that lye in waite in the lurking places of the Villages in the secret places as he that setteth snares to murther the innocent that set a trap that catch men as a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of deceit therefore are they become great and wax in rich they are waxen fat and shine yea the deeds of the wicked are over passed The rod hath blossomed pride hath budded violence is risen up into a rod of wickednesse Sion is built up with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity the stranger is vexed and oppressed which the Lord hath commanded shall not be but be beloved as a mans selfe for the Lord loveth the stranger and turned aside from his right and dealt wrongfully withall his Judgement is perverted and upon him is violence and cruelty exercised The people of the Lord are sould for nought and there are none that inquire after their blood they are eaten up as one would eate breath they whom the Lord hath smitten are persecuted the spoyled is not delivered out of the hand of the Oppressour the Lord is not feared this people are broken in pieces and his heritage afflicted yet they that doe these things say in their hearts the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it God hath for gotten he hideth his face he will never see it God is contemned they say he will not require it yea every one in the darke in the chambers of his Imagery saith the Lord seeth us not the Lord hath forsaken the earth how doth God know is there knowledge in the most High Thou hast seen it O Lord for thou beholdest mischiefe and spight to requite it with thy own hand the poor committeth himselfe unto thee thou art the helper of the fatherlesse Vnderstand ye bruitish among the people And ye fools when will ye be wise He that planteth the eare shall not he hear he that formed the eye shall he not see he that chastiseth the heathen shall not he correct he that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know Surely the Lord seeth it and it displeaseth him that there is no Judgement and he sees that there is no man and wonders that there is no Intercessor therefore his arme is bringing salvation unto him and his righteousnesse it sustaineth him for he is putting on righteousnesse as a breast plate and a helmet of salvation upon his head and he is putting on the garment of vengeance for a cloathing and is clading with zeal as with a cloak he will awake as one out of sleep and go forth as a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine he will stir up jealousie like a man of war he will cry yea roare he shall prevaile against his enemies he hath a long time holden his peace and he hath been still and refrained himselfe he will cry like a travelling woman he will devoure and destroy all at once he he will make wast mountains and hills and dry up all their herbs he will make the rivers Islands and he will dry up the pools and according to their deeds accordingly will he repay fury to his adversaries recompence to his enemies For these things shall I not visite saith the Lord shall not my soule be avenged on such a generation as this Shall not God avenge the sufferings the blood of his Elect who cry Night and Day unto him how long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the Earth Though he bear long with them I tell you he will avenge them speedily And hath he said it and shall he not doe it hath he spoken it and shall it not come to passe he hath avenged their blood from the dayes of righteous Abel to the Times of this generation and shall he not avenge it on this generation hath this generation witnessed this word of the Lord to be true above many generations before whose Eyes and by whose hands the righteous God hath executed his dreadfull Judgements on the Enemies of his Elect and shall this Generation who have exceeded what hath been done by their Fathers go unpunished Hath he despised the Image of the King and Princes and Nobles and the great ones and many of the people of these Nations and their pomp and glory and powred forth their blood as water on the Earth and made them a fearfull desolation in the cause of his people and of Justice and Equity and shall those whom he hath made the rod of his Anger and the staffe of his Indignation upon these doing the same things for which he judged and cast them out escape Hath all this blood been shed that unrighteousnesse may reigne and oppresssion hath not God spared the glory and beauty and excellency of these Nations and the goodlinesse of them but in the Iniquities that they have committed and in the sins wherewithall they have sinned hath cut them off and made them the dreadfull examples of his vengeance to make way for others to rise up and to commit greater abominations Was persecution of tender consciences unjust in the Bishops and is it righteous now in them who suffered by the Bishops for the tendernesse of their consciences and shed so much blood for a secure provision therein and put it to this Issue by the sword either they and theirs not to be or not to be without it to outstrip the Bishops yea the latter Ages in a cruell and barbarous persecution of their Brethren because of the tenderness of their consciences Was the Infringement of Liberty the endeavouring to subvert the fundamentall Lawes of the Nation and the violation of right unrighteous in the King and Strafford and Canterbury and that generation and Judged Tyrannicall and Trayterous and Justice executed upon them for so doing and the Kings Family rooted up and thousands of Families destroyed and the three Nations made fields of blood and hazarded in many years fierce and cruell Wars to bring it to passe and is it just now in inferiour Ministers who are in Commission and sworn to execute the Law to preserve liberty and to defend right as saith also the Instrument of Government to exceed them all in the violation of Law and the destruction of right and liberty as if so be the Cause and the Justice of the Wars were to destroy one Generation for another to exercise the same and far greater violences and oppressions upon those who were instrumentall in the destruction of the other when lost their liberties or by what Law Contract or Conquest have they lost them in suffering

and hurried with rage and madnesse by the Prince of the Aire who rules mightily in the children of Disobedience beyond bowells and naturall affection And this is the case and this is the condition of these two innocent servants of the Lord who having all their dayes been seeking after the Lord and walking in that which is called good conscience and Godlinesse and having at length through the riches of that free love of God in Jesus Christ come to find what they had so diligently sought for even Eternall life which is in the Son and to witnesse it in their measures and in the light of Jesus Christ by whom the world was made to comprehend and see where all professions and people are who know not nor believe in the light to wit Jesus Christ the light of the world who lighteth every one that cometh into the world nor doe witnesse the life of Jesus made manifest in them as by the light they have been brought to see it in their owne particulars and knowing the terrours of the Lord out of bowels of love to the precious soules of people which are eternall and at the command of the Lord have left their Country and Relations as to the outward in the North and travelled for their sakes to shew unto them what they had found and tasted and seen and handled of the word of life that so their soules might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus and being come thither did no other thing then to meet in the fear of the Lord with friends to wait upon him and to declare the truth of the experience of what they had found of the free grace of God which brings salvation manifested in them provoking them unto love and to good works according to the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles and exhorting to holinesse and the things that are eternall as the day approacheth from the measure of the life of God which they had received as the Spirit gave them utterance out of which meetings they were taken contrary to the practice of the Church of Christ and the example of the Saints in the Scriptures and the instrument of Government and dealt withall as hath been mentioned And which indeed is hardly to be believed but hath been said is true for no other thing but as aforesaid have they done or that is not according to the righteous Law of the holy God which shall be answered with that in every mans conscience And to make appear truly to the contrary are all men here openly charged who can even their greatest adversaries because of whose cruelty and oppression and to manifest what it is this Relation is undertaken Neverthelesse through the power of the Lord in whom is everlasting strength whom they witnesse and for whom they suffer they glory in tribulation and stands over the heads of their greatest enemies who puffe at them knowing that he who shall come will come and will not tarry when their Testimony in sufferings is finished for the Seeds sake and the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus for whom they suffer in bonds and are ready even unto the death from the hands of those who professe him as dying at Jerusalem and yet crucifie him in his truth members and have the generation of their forefathers from the beginning And then neither Guards nor Gates shall be able to keep them For our God is King over the whole Earth and his Kingdome is begun to be set up and to him whom man despiseth to him whom the Nation abhorreth to a servant of Rulers Kings shall see and arise Princes also shall worship because of the Lord who is faithfull and the holy one of Israel which hath chosen him saith the Lord the Redeemer of Israel and his holy one who commandeth deliverance for Jacob and Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and their Queens thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth and lick up the dust of feet and thou shalt know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me The sons also of those that afflict thee shall come bending unto thee and all those that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Syon of the holy one of Israel Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee I will make thee an eternall excelency a joy of many generations Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt suck the breasts of Kings and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob For thus saith the Lord even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for I will contend with them that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children and I will feed them that oppresse thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob And the Nation and the Kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine Thus saith thy Lord the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it againe But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soule bow down that we may goe over and thou hast layed thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over A Testimoniall of severall honest men of Plymouth concerning the meeting aforesaid and the passages thereat upon which is laid the pretended ground and cause of the sufferings of Miles Halhead and Thomas Salthouse at which they were present FOrasmuch as we are concerned in the sufferings of our dear Friends Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead who have been kept close Prisoners in and near the City of Exeter almost six Months contrary to equity and justice they having not broken the least clause of any Law we think it necessary to give a briefe Relation of the state of their Sufferings After some trouble and difficulty which the said Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead indured in coming to Plymouth May 16. 1655. they came safe to Plymouth where then had severall Meetings with most of us and the first day of the week following we had a Meeting which was appointed by us at John Harris his house a little out of the Town where both our Friends spake in the forenoon and afternoon and were approved of by those that heard them there being no lesse then thirty persons of the company in the afternoon that came

Spirit of Truth doe we exhort thee to take heed that the spirituall man judge all things in righteteousnesse and truth So we remain Prisoners of the Lord not as evill doers our conscience bearing us witnesse in the presence of the Lord in whom is everlasting strength who are friends of the Truth and of the Common-wealth of England Known to the World by the Names of Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead For the hands of John Page Mayor of Plymouth The copy of another Letter to the Mayor of Plymouth concerning Swearing John Page Mayor of Plymouth FOrasmuch as it hath pleased thee to cast us into Prison and hast Examined us and hast found no breach of any Law by which thou can'st lawfully punish us but under a pretence hath tendred us an Oath to swear against the Supremacy and Purgatory We doe in the presence of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth deny the Pope and all things therein mentioned with as much detestation as thou thy self or any in the world can or doth our consciences also bearing us witnesse in the presence of our God who is able to deliver us although we are cast into a Prison nay if we be cast into a Den of Lyons and a fiery Furnace with the three Children as you may read in Daniel that would not fall down to worship the Image neither will we disobey the Command of Jesus Christ who saith Swear not at all and the Apostle James saith Above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven nor by Earth nor by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation And all that doth the will of God shall know of the doctrine of Christ and whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son If any come unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house nor bid him God speed and this we doe affirm that swearing is out of the doctrine of Christ although you may alledge many Scriptures for Swearing as in the first Covenant and that an Oath among men for confirmation is to them an end of all strife but he that is made the Surety of a better Covenant who hath put an end to all strife where it is witnessed saith Swear not at all although that you may alledge that the Angels swore yet know this that when he bringeth his first begotten into the world he saith Let the Angels of God worship him So we lay it upon thee to witnesse for us or against us whether Yea or nay is not to be preferred before swearing by all those who professe Religion seeing that Jesus Christ hath commanded not to swear at all and he saith If yee love me keep my Commandements and if we suffer imprisonment for keeping the Commandements of Christ it is not grievous to us for we refuse not to swear for any guiltinesse that is in us or that can be charged upon us for we are against all false wayes false worships false Lawes but we deny swearing because Jesus Christ hath commanded us not to swear at all So if we be kept in Prison let it never be said by you That it is for any thing but because we dare not swear knowing that to disobey the Commandements of Christ is the way of Cain who was driven out from the presence of God and became a Fugitive and a Vagabond and this some of you would charge upon us to be Vagabonds who in tendernesse of conscience and in the obedience to the light of Jesus Christ and in love to him our lives are not dear to us to lay down if it be required for the confession of him before men and the keeping of his Commandements for to this end are we called and our rejoycing is in this that in simplicity and godly sincerity our conversations hath been and is honest as many can witnesse for us against those who in their wisedome goe about to entrap and ensnare the innocent And this we write not to justifie our selves but for the sake of the simple ones who have heard many lyes and false reports of us of this doe we put thee in mind not that thou art ignorant that all the glory and honour belongeth to the Lord God who hath said He will not give his glory unto another and Vengeance is mine and I will repay it saith the Lord who will ease himself of all his Adversaries and recompence tribulation to them that trouble afflict or offend one of the least that believe in his Name So in love to thee and all people for the eternall good of all doe we heartily wish that grace and peace may be multiplied so we rest in the will of our father to doe or to suffer that he may be glorified by us to whom all glory belongeth for evermore and pray that the sin of Persecution may not be committed by thee nor any that professe to be the friends of Englands Whose Names are known to be Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead For the hands of John Page Mayor of Plymouth HEar ye this O Priests and hearken ye house of Israel and give ye eare O house of the King for judgement is towards you because you have been as a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor And ye revolters are profound to make slaughter though I have been a rebuker of them all Hear I pray you O Heads of Jacob and yee Princes of the house of Israel Is it not for you to know Judgement Shalt thou reigne because thou closest thy selfe in Cedar Did not their Father eate and drinke and doe Judgement and Justice and then it was well with him he Judged the Cause of the poor and needy then it a as well with him was not this know me saith the Lord And hear yee Rulers who hate the good and love the evill who pluck the skin from off the people of the Lord and their flesh from off their bones yea who abhor Judgement and pervert all equity who turne Judgement into worme wood and leave off righteousnesse in the Earth who decree unrighteous decrees and write grievousnesse which ye have prescribed Woe unto you for Judgement is turned away backward and Justice standeth afar off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter yea truth faileth and he that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey a man is made an Offender for a word a snare is laid for him that reproveth in the gate the just is afflicted and turned aside for a thing of nought and the poor in the gate from their right The righteousnesse of the righteous is taken from him he that rebuketh in the gate is hated he that speaketh uprightly is abhorred iniquities are conceived are travelled withall are searched out A diligent search is accomplished the inward thought and the heart is deep they dig as low as

and fighting for them and having had to doe in obtaining the Victory or in fearing the Lord and being peaceable in the land and living in the principle that leads out of transgression and not resisting evill with evill but bearing all things and suffering all things both from those who have been friends and enemies though contrary to Law and liberty and common humanity and the righteous ends of the Wars are their sufferings leaving vengeance to the Lord whose it is and who will repay it and laying their bodies as the ground and as the street to them that say bow down thy body that we may goe over And wherein consists the vertue merit or prerogative of the other by which they may in equity or right claim such a priviledge Is Law and Justice and Liberty and Right changed in the ending of the Wars for them into peace that those must be denyed either and the contrary inflicted on them in such a manner of cruelty that the presidents of former times have not parallel'd whose lives in the field and whose All hath been so often engaged for the effecting thereof Is this Generation delivered to commit greater abominations and Cruelties then those who for these things sake and by their hand have been so lately Destroyed Is the Weight of the Blood of these Nations a small Matter and all the Garments rolled in blood the mangled and dead Carkasses of so many Thousands the Plundering burnings Devastations Ruines of Multitudes the Barbarous and the unheard of Cruelties and Murthers executed especially in Ireland the Cryes of the Great Companies of Fatherlesse and Widowes for Liberties and Justice a pleasant sight that Men so Lightly Gird it to their loynes and goe over their Graves in acting higher Wickednesses then what were the Causes of those Miserable Destructions God is not unrighteous so severely to punish Offences in some and to let others goe free who transgresse in the same and act more wickedly Shall not the Judge of the whole earth doe right God is true and every man a lyar and at his hands every man shall receive according to their deeds If he spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chaines of darknesse to be reserved unto Judgement Nor the old world bringing in the flood upon the World of the ungodly nor Sodome and Gomorah but turned their Cities into ashes and condemned them with an overthrow making them Ensamples to them that afterwards should live ungodly nor the Kingdomes of Israel and Judah in whom the iniquities and mighty sins afore-mentioned were found but suffered for those things sake Sion to be plowed as a field and Jerusalem to become heaps and the mountain of the house as the higher places of the forrest and removed them both out of his sight and upon whom the wrath is come to the uttermost And if he spared not those in these three Nations upon whom some of these things were found but hath spread them before this Generation as the remarkable and sad Examples of his Vengeance Justice who renders to every one according to his works then what can they expect who having all these examples before their eyes and having bin the Instruments of his indignation upon those of their Age doe not only the same things but over-passe their deeds in afflicting the just and persecuting the witnesses of the living God the God of their mercies who hath wrought all their wonderfull deliverances whom of their brethren he hath raised up and sent amongst them to turn their feet out of the wayes of destruction into the path of peace and to direct them to that which if hearkned unto will guide them out of all deceipts and subtilties and power of darknes up to the Kingdom of his Son whose Throne is for ever and ever and the Scepter of whose Kingdome is a righteous Scepter which is the substance of what the late wars were a figure the principle from whence alone Justice shall spring up from the earth righteousnes shall slow down from heaven who shall rule the Nations with a rod of iron and break them in pieces as a potters vessel whose kingdome is begun to be set up which shall never have an end I say what remaineth for such but a fearfull expectation of the revelation of the righteous judgements of God which shall destroy the adversary and bring upon themselves swift destruction beyond the measure of those that have gone before them except they repent For God is not mocked as men sow so shall they reap and those that follow their pernicious wayes their judgment lingreth not nor doth their damnation slumber the testimony of his Elect in sufferings is finishing the measure of the iniquity of their persecutors is filling up apace and the Judge standeth at the door Judgement hastneth and vengeance is preparing her self and destruction is making ready and woe unto you ye potsheards of the earth who strive with your Maker What will ye doe in the day of visitation and in the desolation that cometh from far To whom will ye flee for help and where will you leave your glory Can your hearts endure your hands be strong in the days when the Lord shall deal with you Be wise therefore O yee Kings be instructed O yee Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Touch not his Anointed and doe his Prophets no harm Kiss the Son lest he be angry and yee parish from the mid way when his wrath is kindled but a little and it is kindling blessed are all they that trust in him But sing O Heavens and be joyfull O Earth and break forth into singing O Mountaines for God hath comforted his people and will have mercy on his afflicted FINIS G Hughes Government Art 37. Acts 16.17 Ephes. 4.8 John 10.1 Jer. 23.10 a John 3.16 b Joh. 1.3 10. c John 8 12. d John 1.9 e Luke 11.31 f Psal. 110.1 Mat. 22.43 45 g Rev. 27.16 h John 8.56 i Heb. 1.6 k Rom. 10.4 l Heb. 7.23 m Heb. 8.6 n Heb. 13.20.12.24 o Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 23.7.37 p Mat. 24.35 q Mat. 5.17 r Luke 1.73 Å¿ Rom. 2.8 9 10. t Rev. 3.14 u Acts 10.42.17.32 2 Tim 4.1 Rom. 2.16 x John 10.17 Mat. 5 33 34 35 36 37. z James 5.12 a Prov. 8.15 b Psal. 62.11 c Phil 2.10 11. d Rom. 2.9 A close Imprisonment is directly contrary to the 23 H 8. Cap 2. which provideth that Prisons shall be in the most eminent and populous Townes where is most resort of people that the Prisoner may be the oftner visited and relieved And though the Statute of Westminster 2. provides for a safe Imprisonment yet for a close Imprisonment there is neither that nor any other Law and above all things doth the Law value the liberty of a man Loe hear what a filthy worker of iniquity this Priest is for denying of whose spirit before the people these long and cruell sufferings are inflicted on the innocent What a defiler of the flesh is this in whose behalfe these men make war against the Lamb Is not this Priest who not onely prophecies of but fills himselfe with wine and strong drink a fit Prophet for these people What think you had they a Spirit of discerning who comprehended this Priest and his root and principle and denying his spirit before the people though he spake so high in the praise of what they had said Would not these men plead Barabas his part against Jesus were he on the earth Devon